{"id":2182,"date":"2009-03-09T15:41:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T20:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2009-03-09T15:42:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T20:42:16","slug":"2182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/03\/09\/2182\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017di\u017eek FT interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u017di\u017eek: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/06b42e32-09dd-11de-add8-0000779fd2ac.html\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times website interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIf you asked me at gunpoint what I really like, I would say to read German idealism, Hegel. What I like most, what I love the best, is this objectivity of belief,\u201d he says. Although people may claim not to believe in the political system, their inert cynicism only validates that system. This is all explained, according to \u017di\u017eek, by Marx\u2019s theory of \u201ccommodity fetishism\u201d, the idea that the way we behave in society is determined by objective market forces rather than subjective beliefs. \u201cThe importance is in what you do, not in what you think. I love this dialectical reversal.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u017di\u017eek: The Financial Times website interview \u201cIf you asked me at gunpoint what I really like, I would say to read German idealism, Hegel. What I like most, what I love the best, is this objectivity of belief,\u201d he says. Although people may claim not to believe in the political system, their inert cynicism only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/03\/09\/2182\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u017di\u017eek FT interview&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}